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The L.A. Times is expanding its events for movie lovers with a new, free Indie Focus Screening Series at the Laemmle NoHo 7 theaters starting Aug. 22 with “Robot & Frank.” Starring Oscar nominee Frank Langella as an aging jewel thief who turns his annoying robot caregiver into an accomplice, “Robot & Frank” was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Times movie writer Mark Olsen will be on hand to discuss the rambunctiously heartfelt sci-fi caper with director Jake Schreier. For more than three years, Mark has been writing the Indie Focus feature for The Times, highlighting indie, foreign and documentary films that often might otherwise pass...

In the late '80s a thunderbolt of inspiration struck Jack Valenti, longtime chief of the Motion Picture Assn. of America: What if his organization got rid of the X rating, besmirched by years of misappropriation by hard-core exploitation films, and...

No American film critic wields a poison pen quite like the New York Times' Manohla Dargis, who is a brilliant stylist and savvy critical thinker even if she can often be counted on to fall in love with films that ...

Thereâs something undecided about the tone of âProcreation,â the tiresomely outlandish family comedy by Justin Tanner that's receiving its world premiere at the Odyssey Theatre under the direction of David Schweizer. With its grotesque caricatures and zi

"Life During Wartime": The song where freak-folk meets the word "iPhone." Yes, scruffy singer Devendra Banhart sings about the Apple device on the new track, a collaboration between himself and Beck for the Todd Solondz film of the same name. The two Angelenos

As Chairy might say, today's secret word is HBO. On Tuesday,the network announced that early next year it will broadcast "The Pee-Wee Herman Show," a Broadway production based on Paul Reubensâ original stage production, âThe Pee-wee Herman Show,&